It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
End racial and ethnic gerrymandering, stop voter I.D. laws that seek to suppress voters of color, and make sure everyone can add… — Beto O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after… — Sharif Abdel Kouddous Copy Share Image
“Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that.… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was previously involved in local and state politics, but not national, because grassroots democracy starts at the bottom. This was the… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
